The waste crisis is devastating our planet. A lot of the stuff we throw gets dumped in landfills. These massive waste disposal sites are often created by destroying forests or inhabitable lands. For ...

German study proves automated sorting can recover nearly half of hospital plastic waste for recycling into new products ...

In Sun Valley, California, a neighborhood north of Los Angeles, around 250 trucks per day dump onto a concrete floor 1,000 tons of cardboard, plastic, aluminum and anything else people have thrown ...

UMass Amherst is using two AI-focused tools to cut down on its waste and more effectively sort trash from recycling. School ...

Recycling on campus just got simpler. Facilities Management signed a new contract with the City of Tucson allowing them to put paper, cardboard and plastic together. Before last year they were ...

ST. LOUIS — Recycling hasn't had the best track record in the St. Louis area recently. In late 2021, St. Louis City officials told 5 On Your Side that they were no longer picking up trash and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — Many people don’t sort their ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...

O'Connor Township is reminding ratepayers that although more waste items can be recycled at its Highway 590 landfill as of Jan. 1, it's not a free-for-all. Items being dropped at ...

Recycling is not a myth — it’s a movement that’s keeping materials in use, creating jobs and protecting Wisconsin’s ...